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Where is the horse gone, where the young rider?Where now the giver of gifts?Where are the seats at the feasting gone?Where are the merry sounds in the hall?Alas, the bright goblet! Alas, the knight and his hauberk!Alas, the glory of the king!How that hour has departed, dark under the shadow of night,as had it never been!

used by Tolkein in The Two Towers to describe Eorl the Young in "King of the Golden Hall,"